''Tsubasa Soccer School Yukuhashi'' hosted a JFA Nadeshiko Hiroba in Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture, on 4 April.

As a general regional sports club, Tsubasa have hosted spring-break sports classes, and those girls who selected football from among multiple different sports participated in ''Nadeshiko Hiroba.'' For the training, they used sponge balls, with which they wouldn't get hurt even if they'd hit with them, while they also applied elements coordination trainings that anyone could easily do, focusing on playing various types of game of tags and other movement-creating plays with better tempos. They also had exchange occasions where others who chose chose basketball and volleyball enjoyed playing football. Taking the barriers between the sports, all the participants were able to have more communications in between. By working on how they'd run the events, the hosts were able to make the participants to join sports they'd do for the first time without feeling that they don't belong. They learned from the participants that they could make them enjoy the games seriously according to their maturity level, from the infants to the adults

Comments of hosts

MIZUMOTO Kazunori, school master of Tsubasa Academia Soccer School

At the beginning, there was a tendency that girls were shying away from football, but through the activities at the Nadeshiko Hiroba, I think that people from the girls to the boys, the beginners to the advanced people, would get to know that they could enjoy the sport safely. In order to be able to increase the children who will enjoy playing football, we would like to continue to make the best effort in providing fun sports even more. We are working on a kids project, futsal, beach football and spreading grass fields. We are carrying out the Nadeshiko Hiroba taking advantage of all the know-hows, and do out bit to contribute to the development of the Japanese sports culture from the grassroots level.

Comments of participant

MATSUKAGE Ataru
I was able to be friends of people who I wouldn't have been friends with if I hadn't join the Nadeshiko Hiroba. I talked with them a lot and enjoyed playing football together. Because we practiced with some game elements, I became to have a feeling of fun and I thought that I would be interested in football even more. I want to enjoy football with a lot of people, so I thought that I wanted this Nadeshiko Hiroba to be held a lot more.

Comments of parent

Ms. MATSUKAGE Nozomi
When I heard about the Nadeshiko Hiroba, I felt that it would be fun. Regardless of your ages, the Nadeshiko Hiroba would welcome whether you are an experienced person or a beginner, and was a place to teach a lot of different unfamiliar things that the children usually don't get to experience, overcoming a lot of different obstacles. My daughter's friend was timid and she was barely catching up at the beginning, but she would be frolicking having a lot of fun and was frustrated in a serious tone cooperating with everybody else to try to score goals afterwards. And by the time we would go home she seemed to have had so much fun, asking me, ''When't the next time? I want to come again!' There's a lot of girls who have interests in playing football, so I think that it'd be great if we get more occasions like this.

JFA Nadeshiko Hiroba

It is an occasion that any females, from the children to the girls, to the mothers and grandmothers, are able to casually enjoy the game of football. It is run by organizations and facilities that are approved by the JFA.

JFA Nadeshiko Hiroba (Japanese version only)